How I Got Over-Mahalia Jackson 

[ti:How I Got Over] [ar:Mahalia Jackson] [al:Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns V] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson [00:08.49]How I got over [00:11.11] [00:13.55]How did I make it over [00:15.80] [00:19.43]You know my soul look back and wonder [00:24.05]How I make it over [00:26.70] [00:29.02]How I made it over [00:31.83] [00:34.33]Going on over all these years [00:38.89] [00:40.02]You know my soul look back and wonder [00:44.83]How did I make it over [00:46.77] [00:49.51]Tell me how we got over Lord [00:52.71] [00:54.77]Had a mighty hard time coming on over [00:59.58] [01:00.77]You know my soul look back and wonder [01:05.52]How did we make it over [01:07.58] [01:10.34]Tell me how we got over Lord [01:13.79] [01:15.47]I've been falling and rising all these years [01:21.10]But you know my soul look back and wonder [01:26.41]How did I make it over [01:28.53] [01:30.84]Mmm.. [01:32.90]But, soon as I can see Jesus [01:36.53] [01:38.16]The man that died for me [01:41.60] [01:43.47]Man that bled and suffered [01:47.04] [01:48.47]And he hung on Calvary [01:52.21] [01:53.02]And I want to thank him for how he brought me [01:57.49] [01:58.43]And I want to thank God for how he taught me [02:02.74] [02:03.74]Oh thank my God how he kept me [02:08.68]I'm gonna thank him 'cause he never left me [02:12.80] [02:13.93]Then I'm gonna thank God for 'ole time religion [02:18.05] [02:19.18]And I'm gonna thank God for giving me a vision [02:23.53] [02:24.53]One day, I'm gonna join the heavenly choir [02:28.34] [02:29.60]I'm gonna sing and never get tired [02:33.41] [02:34.41]And then I'm gonna sing [02:36.66]Somewhere 'round God alter [02:39.03] [02:39.97]And I'm gonna shout all my trouble over [02:44.00] [02:44.75]You know I've gotta thank God [02:47.31]And thank him for being [02:49.75]So good to me, Lord yeah [02:54.23] [02:55.22]How I made it over Lord [02:58.54] [02:59.48]I had to cry in the midnight hour coming on over [03:04.60] [03:05.73]But you know my soul look back and wonder [03:10.53]How did I make it over [03:12.53] [03:15.04]Tell me how I made it over Lord God Lord [03:20.03] [03:20.85]Falling and rising all these years [03:26.16]You know my soul look back and wonder [03:31.10]How did I make it over [03:33.76] [03:36.63]I'm gonna wear a diamond garment [03:40.62] [03:41.69]In that new Jerusalem [03:45.63] [03:46.93]I'm gonna walk the streets of gold [03:50.81] [03:52.00]It's the homeland of the soul [03:55.68] [03:57.12]I'm gonna view the host in white [04:01.07] [04:02.38]They've been traveling day and night [04:06.18] [04:07.50]Coming up from every nation [04:11.63] [04:12.57]They're on their way to the great Cognation [04:16.57] [04:17.38]Coming from the north, south, east, and west [04:21.63] [04:22.75]They're on their way to a land of rest [04:26.69] [04:27.32]And they're gonna join the heavenly choir [04:32.37]You know we're gonna sing and never get tired [04:37.50]And then we're gonna sing [04:39.94]Somewhere 'round God alter [04:42.69]And then we're gonna shout [04:45.13]All our troubles over [04:47.82]You know we gotta thank God [04:50.38]Thank him for being so good to me [04:55.50] [04:57.26]You know I come to thank God this evening [05:02.51] [05:03.56]I come to thank him this evening [05:07.70] [05:08.75]You know all all night long [05:12.95] [05:13.57]God kept his angels watching over me [05:17.82] [05:18.75]Early this morning, early this morning [05:22.88] [05:23.82]God told his angel God said, [05:27.63]"touch her in my name" [05:30.76] [05:31.63]God said, "touch her in my name" [05:36.38]I 'rose this morning, [05:38.82]I 'rose this morning, I 'rose this morning [05:43.88]I feel like shouting, [05:46.45]I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting [05:51.57]I feel like shouting, [05:54.07]I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting [05:59.13]I feel like shouting, [06:01.63]I just gotta thank God, I just gotta thank God [06:06.70]I just gotta thank God, [06:09.13]I just gotta thank him [06:11.63]Thank God for being so good, [06:21.26]God been good to me [06:25.25] [06:29.63]-End-